July 2, 2008

• Kentucky jury acquits Melbourne Mills, the "too drunk to pay attention" fen-phen defendant, can't reach agreement on others [Ted @ OL]
• Related: Florida A&M says no one's proved $1 million law school donation from Ky. scandal's Shirley Cunningham came from tainted funds, so why give it back? [ABA Journal]
• Law of the land: Chicago's Daley isn't so hostile toward the Second Amendment that he'd defy the Supreme Court, or is he? [Chapman]
• "I don't hate lawyers. I hate the unfair legal SYSTEM." [docblog Fertility File]
• Southern Illinois forum-shopping: "None of the claimants reside in St. Clair County" but all seven have gone there to file contact-lens suits against Bausch & Lomb [St. Clair Record]
• Next up in cellphone early termination class actions: trial against Verizon in Alameda County, Calif. [The Recorder; earlier]